Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneer’s
April 2010 e-Newsletter
Hello fellow Pioneers,
Enjoy this month’s edition of the CARP e-Newsletter. Please send any comments or questions to info@k6arp.org.
In this edition:
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Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
Transmitter Hunt
UPDATE: CARP will be sponsoring a T-Hunt on Saturday April 10th, 2010 starting at Letterman Park in Clovis. The hunt will begin promptly at 10:00 am so be sure to arrive early.
At the conclusion of the hunt, there will be a BBQ. If you plan on attending the T-hunt, please RSVP to Rob AE6GE at ae6ge@k6arp.org so we have enough food at the BBQ!
Time/Date:
Saturday April 10th , 2010 at 10:00 am
Location:
Letterman Park
Clovis, CA
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Over the weekend the CARP High Level repeater on 444.725 suffered an equipment failure. Rob Mavis (AE6GE) and Patrick May (KI6QOH) went to the site to assess the problem with the repeater not transmitting, but was receiving just fine. Upon opening up the repeater a failed resistor in the PA was located. The PA was removed from the repeater and brought back down to Clovis for repair and testing. The repeater should be back up fairly soon.
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Las Vegas Voice-over-IP Meeting
Annual Las Vegas Voice-over-IP Meeting (since 2002) is Saturday April 10 at Circus-Circus just at the start of the NAB.
Each year the meeting is of a broader scope including all the major VoIP systems in use by the amateur radio community, i.e., IRLP, Echo link, EchoIRLP, All Star, D-Star and DV Dongle. New this year is the DV-AP (Digital Voice Access Point is a USB device that you can use with a D-Star HT – buy at HRO or AES).
Open to all – see www.narri.org or www.WesternReflector.com and click on VoIP button for more information on conference, registration and hotel deals.
Date:
Saturday Aptil 10, 2010
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March 21, 2010
Frequency Allocations App for iPhone and iPod Touch
Allocations, a new iPhone and iPod touch app for radio communication professionals and enthusiasts, is now available. Containing the entire U.S. Table of Frequency Allocations, Allocations is a convenient and portable electronic reference to allocated radio services and associated regulations across the entire radio spectrum from 9 kHz to 275 GHz.
For example, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) depend on reliable access to the electromagnetic spectrum. Certain spectrum frequencies are sometimes referred to as bands and the amount of the spectrum needed to permit transmission of information is referred to as bandwidth. Allocations for the federal government, non-federal-government, and all three ITU Regions are covered. For each allocated band, the full text of all relevant footnotes is included.
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AMSAT Bulletin Board
Alan Kung, BA1DU
HO-68 operating schedule March 14-21
Alan Kung, BA1DU has announced the separate scheduling of Digital and FM repeater modes on the amateur radio satellite HO-68.
On the AMSAT Bulletin Board he writes:
I got a lot of responses about problem of digital mode through HO-68. The main problem is that Packet communication is often interrupted by voice. We are trying a new schedule in this week, voice and packet operations will be separated by the schedule, of course, this just depends on the hams’own discipline. If you have any comment and suggestion, please let me know.
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Oakland Tribune
by Matthew Artz
March 12, 2010
Ham radio: Nerdy until there’s an emergency
FREMONT — The first Saturday of every month, Bernhard Hailer and his ham radio buddies go on a hunt.
With antennas made mostly of plastic pipes and metal tape measurers pointing out of car windows, they set off from Warren Avenue in Fremont and traverse Tri-City area streets trying to locate the signal emitted by a hidden transmitter the size of an envelope box.
The team that takes the shortest path to the transmitter gets bragging rights, but, in this game, everyone in the Tri-City area is a winner.
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CARP Net Control
March 3, 2010
Simulated Repeater Failure Net 3/11/2010
The Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers Net for 3/11/2010 will be conducted as a simulated repeater failure net. The Net will be conducted on 147.675 MHz simplex at 19:00 local time. This net normally meets on the K6ARP Repeater system. We invite all amateurs in the area to take part in this Net.
After a power and subsequent generator failure during a powerful storm that caused a repeater outage at the high level repeter site, CARP has decided to have periodic simulated Repeater Failure Nets.
Net control station for this net will be Patrick May, KI6QOH located in Clovis near Gettysburg/Fowler. Stations with directional antennas should orient them in that direction. Stations should take note of stations that check-in but are not recognized by Net Control and relay that station to net control when the relaying station is called.
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PRNewswire
March 4, 2010
Students Testing Building Blocks for Spacecraft on NASA Rocket Flight
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Not much bigger than a child’s toy block, two spacecraft designed and built by university students in Kentucky and California will fly in space for a short period this month to gather information that may be applied to future small Earth orbiting space vehicles.
The spacecraft will fly on a NASA suborbital Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket between 6 and 9 a.m.(EST), March 11, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The backup launch days are March 12 and 13.
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